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Richard Sorge

1895 - 1944

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Richard Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й). Sorge is known for his service in Japan in 1940 and 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Sorge has received more than 1,191,360 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Richard Sorge is the 2nd most popular journalist, the 3rd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Journalist.

Richard Sorge was a Soviet spy who was instrumental in exposing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

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  • 1.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Richard Sorge ranks 2 out of 127. Before him are Robert Capa. After him are Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, Joseph Pulitzer, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Sebastião Salgado, Julian Assange, John Reed, and Dorothea Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Richard Sorge ranks 5. Before him are George VI, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Carl Orff, and Juan Perón. After him are Buster Keaton, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Anna Freud, J. Edgar Hoover, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Nikolai Yezhov. Among people deceased in 1944, Richard Sorge ranks 11. Before him are Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Claus von Stauffenberg, Abdulmejid II, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, and William James Sidis. After him are Günther von Kluge, Reza Shah, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Alexis Carrel, and Marc Bloch.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 3 out of 189. Before him are Heydar Aliyev (1923) and Nizami Ganjavi (1141). After him are Lev Landau (1908), Ilham Aliyev (1961), Zecharia Sitchin (1920), Arghun (1250), Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Lotfi A. Zadeh (1921).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Azerbaijan

Among journalists born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 1. After him are Chingiz Mustafayev (1960) and Khadija Ismayilova (1976).

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